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Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
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Politician
University Teacher
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Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
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My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
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